Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time. scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/

Leiden looking good today ;-) 📢 Abstract submission will be open Nov 1st – Dec 15th for EHBEA 2026 ⚡Present your research, connect & collaborate 14-17 April 📝 300 words (extendable to 800 after acceptance) For more information & our full call for abstracts, check www.ehbea2026.com

New preprint w/ @fbartos.bsky.social , Ben Jones, and @tvpollet.bsky.social . Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7 osf.io/preprints/ps...

That’s insane. Better trying Euromillions jackpot tomorrow (£45M).

New paper out today with Zhian Chen. We argue that modern intensive parenting is not only exhausting for parents, but in some cases disrupts healthy child development. What is 'overparenting'? And can evolutionary theory help us understand how we got here? academic.oup.com/emph/advance...

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences 📣 📣 📣 Deadline: December 19, 2025 Check the form below 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠 Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology: "Is disgust a unitary emotion?" 📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5 👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!

This is quite interesting.

EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀 If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president! If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary! DEADLINE: 16/12/2026 HERE IS THE FORM 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🌙 We’re looking for young people (18–24) in the UK to take part in a study on sleep, self-harm & daily life. 📱The study involves 2 weeks of short surveys + an optional interview More information in poster or contact me at [email protected]

😢 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

A serious failure case is that many biologists seem to have been taught that they should inspect bivariate correlations between predictors and not include pairs with high correlations. That is not even "collinearity" as statisticians define it (where is about joint info in additive model).

Standing up for science is one way to push back against political attacks on the university sector 👇 Experts in biology and anthropology have put together this statement to counter misinformation about race. Please consider signing and sharing

It must be real if it's on jobs.ac.uk...! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOQ976/p...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

New blog post! Why experiments are the gold standard for answering causal questions (pedermisager.org/blog/why-exp...). Many text books insist on experimental evidence to draw causal inferences bvut don't fully explain exactly what gives experiments their special powers.

Online dating lets us meet a more diverse range of potential partners, but we still tend to be drawn to people like ourselves. My latest @psychologytoday.com post explores why: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/digi...

A Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries by @cmolho.bsky.social et al finds that decision-makers willfully ignore inconvenient information. Information about the negative consequences drives prosociality, especially among guilt-prone individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you study cooperation and how it varies across societies, including those that are under-represented? Are you interested in how AI is fundamentally reshaping human cooperation? If so, don’t miss our special issue on Current Directions in Social Dilemmas Research

📣 We are excited (or should we say disgusted?) to announce the conference 'Disgust across borders' at IAST! @iast.fr 🗓️ Join us on Dec 4 & 5 for two days full of disgust research across species and disciplines. Registration and abstract submission are open (until Aug 31): forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

New paper authored by a PhD student I’ve been supervising. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@juliastern.bsky.social has always been a star to me. I’m lucky to have her as both an amazing collaborator and friend.

🚨 Big milestone for Rdatasets 🚨 The web archive now hosts 3400+ free and documented CSV datasets. Fantastic for teaching and testing! And {Rdatasets} is a new #RStats 📦 for easy download and search Web archive: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets R 📦: vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasetspkg

INFORMATION FOR EHBEA MEMBERS We’re collecting feedback on the Newcastle 2025 meeting (@ehbea2025.bsky.social). Check your email (and spam folder!) for the survey link, and don’t forget to fill it out 🙏 Didn’t get it? Reach out to Jeanne Bovet 😊 🔗 www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our...

The Modern R Stack for Production AI: doi.org/10.59350/z9f... Python isn't the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, & much more #Rstats

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Join me at the University of Witten/Herdecke for research on meta scientific topics, replication work or other fun things :-) as well as teaching some IMO wonderful students short.sg/j/56902143

Big Five personality differences by Zodiac sign (N = 324,929). Eta sq are all less than .0008, so less than 0.1% of the variance in personality is explained by Zodiac sign.

Coding Club: Creating an R Package by Lisa DeBruine #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/package%20development.html#coding-club-creating-an-r-package

In recognition of #MenstrualHealthAwarenessDay, we are pleased to highlight periodically.bsky.social, who address the stigma surrounding menstruation in science through open dialogue, examining the impact of menstrual health on students and researchers:

Happening in two days! Register here ⬇️

Please share! 💛 Looking for young people aged 16–24 with lived experience of self-harm. See poster for details on the co-design project. ✨ Interested or want to learn more? Get in touch: [email protected]

The new edition of 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social , is available! Get 30% off (promotion code ASPROMP8): global.oup.com/academic/pro... Ebook is available on Kindle. Thank you to Prof. Clark Barrett for the endorsement! 🧪

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

We started a company to provide enterprise-level support for open-source statistical software @jaspstats.bsky.social . Our website with the mission and offers just went online! Is your business paying large licensing fees for statistical software? Are you looking for a change? Check it out!

New paper by a PhD student that I am supervising. We did not find an imprinting-like effect causes parental age at birth to predict preferences for facial cues of age. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Applications for @bpsofficial.bsky.social study visit funding open www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Brazil stats agency releases new map with Global South at the top #politics #brazil valorinternational.globo.com/politics/new...

Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict chronic pain associated conditions

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist?? ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test 🧵👇 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory

How do the rights of LGBT+ people vary across the world? 🧵 The first map shows the nearly 40 countries that allow same-sex partners to marry, affirming their right to love and form a family. However, the majority of countries don’t recognize same-sex marriage, or outright ban it.

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

As someone from Brazil and a Greggs fan, that’s a gem!

I speak to a lot of undergraduate students who are interested in postgraduate study but don’t know where to start. This reminds me of myself & so I wanted to write “something” that would give people an idea of things to ask. Hope it helps: philmcaleer.github.io/thinkingmast... #EduSky #HigherEd

Currently seeking #participants to take part in #research on online dating and wellbeing. If you currently use any online dating platform and want to help with our research, please scan the QR code below or click this link: research.sc/participant/...

I’m listening to my first audiobook, and it’s ‘The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World’ by @nicholaraihani.bsky.social. Really enjoying it, especially because she’s the narrator and it sounds like she’s talking directly to the listener.

Folks, universities here are have decided to cut international psychology programs, which will be devastating to psychological science in the Netherlands. Please consider signing this open letter on behalf of my colleagues and me; anybody can sign. openletter.earth/against-lang...